Understanding irrigation requirements
May 25, 2015More effective and efficient irrigation is required to achieve increasing yield and fruit quality expectations and make best…
Improving labour productivity in orchards
May 24, 2015The Future Orchards® March 2015 orchard walks looked at ways to review the performance of our current season…
Pressing on when nature is against you: a grafting success
April 30, 2015AgFirst’s Jesse Reader explains how grafting was used to successfully rework an orchard in response to the drought…
Multi-leader trees and mechanical pruning in Europe
February 25, 2015As part of APAL’s Future Orchards® program, Ulf Kerer shares a suite of the latest orchard management, tree…
A critical time for orchard management
December 6, 2014To help growers in this busy time of year, AgFirst’s Jesse Reader gives a run-down on the important…
What’s the blooming difference?
October 23, 2014By Rebecca Darbyshire and Heidi Parkes Winter and spring temperatures and their interactions, seem to influence when apple…
Getting the best nursery tree possible
September 22, 2014The Australian Pome Fruit Improvement Program (APFIP) is helping growers identify and purchase high quality nursery trees that…
Orchard trials shape future management strategies
July 30, 2014Over the last two seasons over twenty five trials have been carried out in association with the Future…
Future Orchards winter walks
July 16, 2014Braving the ice and snow, the Future Orchards® team have completed two weeks on the road delivering key learnings…
Pruning: setting up the tree canopy for future crops
May 27, 2014A good pruning job is one of the best foundations you can lay down to maximise orchard performance….
